SeeBS and AssPress LIE to voters:
Posted on 12/30/2017 11:21:23 AM PST by Olog-hai
Alarmed by the proliferation of false content online, state lawmakers around the country are pushing schools to put more emphasis on teaching students how to tell fact from fiction.
Lawmakers in several states have introduced or passed bills calling on public school systems to do more to teach media literacy skills that they say are critical to democracy. The effort has been bipartisan but has received little attention despite successful legislation in Washington state, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Mexico.
Several more states are expected to consider such bills in the coming year, including Arizona, New York and Hawaii.
“I don’t think it’s a partisan issue to appreciate the importance of good information and the teaching of tools for navigating the information environment,” said Hans Zeiger, a Republican state senator in Washington who co-sponsored a bill that passed in his state earlier this year. “There is such a thing as an objective source versus other kinds of sources, and that’s an appropriate thing for schools to be teaching.”
Advocates say the K-12 curriculum has not kept pace with rapid changes in technology. Studies show many children spend hours every day online but struggle to comprehend the content that comes at them. …
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Isn’t that called critical thinking?
Which is, by the way, exactly the skill Common Core aims to deprive today’s students of.
This is indoctrination by stealth, methinks.
Should start by warning them about the worms at the Asspress.
Well, they aren’t been too stealthy about it. Very open.
Agree! Most likely it is a way to steer students to Progressive material rather than solid material.
Yet these are the same “educators” who are pushing political correctness, groupthink, and issues such as homosexuality and transsexual matters and global warming as “FACT”, not to be discussed, debated, dissected, etc.
These same “educators” push liberalism and accepting liberalism on faith, rather than pushing critical thinking.
So how the heck can they now be intellectually honest, in pushing critical analysis of the news and current events?
They need to require a course in ethics in J School.
Media literacy.
Uh, ‘twould appear that this is asking for literacy about an entity that has proven beyond doubt that the entity itself raises questions about its own literacy.
Hmmm, did I say that correctly?
Translation: Why be literate about something that has demonstrated profound untrustworthyness?
They should teach the English language first! Many “graduates” are incapable of reading or writing it and can communicate only in one syllable grunts.
With AlGore-Qatar’s CurrentTV state media???
with AlGore’s ChannelOne media???
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_One_News
Channel One News is a digital content provider. The daily news program has been accompanied by commercial advertising for marketing in schools, with supplementary educational resources. The Peabody and Telly Award-winning Channel One News program is broadcast to approximately 5 million young people in upper elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools across the United States.
SeeBS and AssPress LIE to voters:
Does this mean discussing the horrors of Communism and the existence of fifth column traitors in America despite 50 years of denials from the Left?
Yep, no way the commie teachers unions don’t agitate against conservative/truthful news sites here.
Better nothing than propaganda “education”.
“Well, they aren’t been too stealthy about it. Very open.”
I wonder if he meant the stealth part will be AFTER they get their funding to establish these “programs” and they can then begin “steering” our kids to their “truth” and forbidding them from looking at non compliant information? I think THAT PART might be a bit stealthy......
Horrible idea. Students will be taught to only trust NY Slimes, Wash Compost, pMSNBC, and HuffCompost. Groupthink en vogue
Teaching them math and science would be better - if we want a society that can think for ourselves. Simply understanding statistics and how science should be done would be a huge improvement. Throw in some education on economics and civics/government (with historic examples) and students could identify bias/facts/lies pretty well. Add some accurate classes on journalism theory (and history) and students would laugh at what is currently called “news”.
The left wants (needs) to tell students what to believe rather than prepare them to decide for themselves based evidence (unfortunately I can’t say “based on facts” since the left has made “facts” mean as little as the word “racism”).
Vouchers
Sex positive agenda doesn’t care about genetic basis for homosexual desires.
Sex Positive teaching seeks to end ALL moral judgments over sexual pairings of any kind regardless of sex, age, relation, marital status, number, or species of partner(s).
Saying some people are “born this way” is just an argument used to push mushy moderates into accepting the slippery slope.
I was born naked and yet I don’t live as a nudist. And no one was born wearing the clothes of the opposite sex. No one is born wearing any clothes. Clothing is cultural and the norms are dictated by traditions. Transvestism seeks to subvert traditional social norms.
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